Post #3343995
2026-06-15 04:28 UTC
@davidnjoku@mastodon.world @hembrow@todon.eu
No that's only on TV. All those UK costume dramas with people getting on and off of steam trains
West coast US, we had steam freight in the 1970s when I was a kid
Shockingly, I am still alive. And in my 50s
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@Ashmire@pagan.plus 2026-06-15 16:39
@NilaJones@zeroes.ca @davidnjoku@mastodon.world @hembrow@todon.eu I was going to say, I don't know for sure what the power source *was* for the train that went behind my house when I was little, but it absolutely sounded like that and I am not dead yet. I am also old enough to remember the cabooses with the man who would wave at children, though those were done away with when I was still young enough to know and be upset about it. I don't know what current freight trains sound like but I don't think they've quite switched them all to the quiet electric ones that carry commuters.